The Regional Alliances for Persons with Disabilities: 15,000 Students Across 14 States Engaged in STEM Education
With support from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) program, four regional alliances...
State: Maine, New Mexico, Washington
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Bringing Science to a Neighborhood Near You
Community Science Workshops (CSW): Beginning a National Movement is an innovative project that brings science to socioeconomically disadvantaged...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

PEEP Continues to Captivate Preschoolers
PEEP AND THE BIG WIDE WORLD, a daily, half-hour television series with accompanying Web and outreach activities for 2-to-5 year olds,...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education

Extreme 2003
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Ocean Science provided funding for outreach programs, called EXTREME 2000 and...
State: Delaware
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Independent Laboratory Access for the Blind (ILAB): Creating Effective Tools and Techniques for Visually Impaired Students in Chemistry
The “Techniques and Tools to Enhance Blind and Visually Impaired Students Participation in High School Level and General Chemistry Laboratory...
State: Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Technological Advances, Workforce & Economic Development

EDGE: Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education
The Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) program, jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and the Andrew...
State: Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

The best science class ever!
Professor John Tully at Yale University has developed an undergraduate chemistry course designed for non-science majors, Chemistry,...
State: Connecticut
Topics: Science & Engineering Education

ATE Center Responds to the Changing ICT Industry
The dot-com bust of the late 1990’s resulted in a convergence of the Telecommunications Industries and the Information Technologies...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Learning to Teach Mathematics to All Students
The National Science Foundation-funded Mathematics for All project, conducted by Bank Street College of Education and the Education...
State: New York
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Linking Data to Classroom Instruction to Improve Student Learning of Mathematics
During 2006, the Vermont Mathematics Partnership (VMP), a Cohort I Math and Science Partnership project, built significantly upon its...
State: Vermont
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Supporting Students and Teachers in Challenging Science Courses
An essential feature in National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Math and Science Partnership Program is that projects develop strategies...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education Take Science On the Road
Three projects funded by the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) program have established innovative...
State: Florida, New Jersey, Puerto Rico
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) Program: Supporting Projects that Make STEM Education Accessible to Visually Impaired and Blind Individuals
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) program is currently supporting successful projects...
State: Arizona, Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Undergraduate Student Designs Atomic Force Microscope
Kirsten Bonson, an undergraduate student at the University of Vermont (UVM), has designed an atomic force microscope under the...
State: Vermont
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Technological Advances

University Scientists, Mathematicians and Engineers Bring the Vitality of Research into the K-12 Classroom
The Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program engages and challenges mathematics, science and engineering faculty to create new and...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Water, Water, Everywhere: Training for Management of a Crucial Resource
From watershed hydrology to saltwater intrusion monitoring and modeling to numerical modeling of the hydrodynamics in the lower Mississippi...
State: Louisiana, Rhode Island
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

2.5 Million American Children on an Engineering Career Path
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Workforce/Education subcommittee (PCAST) recently released a report that...
State: Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Artificial Intelligence Software for Student Assessment in Chemistry Education
Quantum Simulations, Inc. develops artificial intelligence tutoring, assessment and professional development software that empowers...
State: Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Technological Advances, Workforce & Economic Development

College Professors and K-12 Teachers Learn from One Another
Among the partnerships of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program, there is a growing practice...
State: New York, Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

RET Provides Budding Experience to Build Research-Based Curriculum
Keeping abreast of knowledge can be a tremendous task for science teachers, but Brian Dempsey of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School...
State: Massachusetts
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

GLOBE Program Heads in New Directions
In the past decade, the NASA-NSF-sponsored Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program has engaged...
State: Alaska, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Disseminating Tools to Measure the Content Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics and Science
Three research and development projects funded by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program...
State: Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina
Topics: Challenges of Our Time, Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development

Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program Disaster Research Center
The National Science Foundation funded the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center (DRC) to establish a Research Experiences...
State: Delaware
Topics: Science & Engineering Education, Workforce & Economic Development